Catalyst 9800-40
- For small to medium-sized campus deployments
- Up to 2,000 APs, 32,000 clients, and 40-Gbps throughput
- Hot patching, time saving and hitless upgrades
- Advanced, on-demand telemetry
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Your network, your way
With business-critical applications running on billions of wireless devices, customers need a wireless network that is always on, secure, and flexible.
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers combine the best of RF excellence with IOS XE benefits. These are the industry’s most reliable and highly secure controllers, ready to deploy anywhere--including the cloud of your choice. They provide operational ease and save time and money.
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Features and benefits
Always on
High availability and seamless software updates, enabled by hot patching, keep your clients and services always on during planned and unplanned events.
Secure
Help secure air, devices, and users. With Encrypted Traffic Analytics and SD-Access, wireless infrastructure becomes your strongest first line of defense. Catalyst 9800 controllers come with built-in security: secure boot, runtime defenses, image signing, integrity verification, and hardware authenticity.
Deploy anywhere
Deploy anywhere to help enable wireless connectivity everywhere. Whether on premises, in public and private cloud, or embedded on a switch, Catalyst 9800 controllers have multiple scale options to best meet your organization’s needs.
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Catalyst 9800-80
- For large campus and service provider deployments
- Up to 6000 APs, 64,000 clients, and 80-Gbps throughput
- Hot patching, time saving and hitless upgrades
- Advanced, on-demand telemetry
Catalyst 9800-CL
- Deploy in private or public (AWS) cloud
- Up to 6,000 APs and 64,000 clients
- Hot patching, time saving and hitless upgrades
- Advanced, on-demand telemetry
Embedded wireless
- Catalyst 9800 embedded on a Catalyst 9000 switch
- Ideal for SD-Access-enabled distributed branches and small campuses
- Up to 200 APs and 4,000 clients
- Hot patching, time saving and hitless upgrades
Why upgrade to Catalyst 9800 wireless controllers
Wireless assurance
Catalyst 9800 wireless controllers help provide deep visibility and insights to the wireless network with DNA Assurance.
Centralized management
DNA Center provides centralized management for not only the Catalyst 9800 wireless controllers but all DNA-ready wired and wireless solutions from Cisco.
Compatible with Aironet access points
Catalyst 9800 series wireless controllers are compatible with Aironet Wave 1 and 2 access points.
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At-a-Glances
- Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers (PDF - 171 KB)
- WLAN Controller AAG (PDF - 70 KB)
- Cisco Enterprise Wireless: Built for a Digital World AAG (PDF - 526 KB)
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